Two Portlanders were involved in the hunt for John
John W. Millington, died in Portland, Oregon on the morning of November 11, 1914 at the age of 71 after a long bout with cancer. He was buried on November 13,in the cemetery for the Grand Army of the Republic located in S.W. Portland. Millington was a Chestertown, N.Y. native, who saw first service in the Civil War with the 93rd New York Volunteer Infantry, Company E. While attached to Company H, 16th New York Cavalry during that fateful April in 1865 he was first involved in Lincoln's funeral as part of the military escort and in the hunt for his assassin. In fact, Millington was part of the detail that surrounded the barn on Garrett's farmstead, just south of Port Royal in Caroline County, Virginia where reportedly Booth was mortally wounded and died three hours later on the morning of April 26, 1865. Millington claimed that he actually carried the body of the deceased Booth aboard a monitor for conveyance back to the nation' s capitol. Millington was extensively interviewed for the Portland Journal and his recollections published in February of 1937.
The OLBC is currently looking for the whereabouts of current relatives of Emery Parady, the second member of the 16th New York Calvary unit that tracked down Booth, and was shown to be residing in Portland, Oregon back in 1914 (The date of Millington's obituary in the Portland Telegram)
